Re: Test::Code

2005-08-17 Thread demerphq
On 8/11/05, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > X-Posted to Perlmonks (http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=483100) > > I frequently write code that generates anonymous functions on the fly. > However, I often want to verify that these functions are correct > without executing them. To this end, I

Re: Ambiguity of parsing numbers with underscores/methods

2005-08-17 Thread Roger Hale
Luke Palmer wrote: On 8/16/05, Ingo Blechschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, 1_234; # surely 1234 1e23; # surely 1 * 10**23 1._5; # call of method "_5" on 1? 1._foo; # call of method "_foo" on 1? 1.e5; # 1.0 * 10**5? 1.efoo; # call of metho

Re: GC API from discussion

2005-08-17 Thread David Formosa \(aka ? the Platypus\)
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:14:43 +0300, Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Let's define some terms: These are all very good and I'm going to incorprate them in the API docs. > scope/origin - where objects are created I would refine this one. origin scope - The lexical scope

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-08-17 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:58:54PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: > On 8/16/05, Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was a little dissapointed that there wasn't greater focus on using > > Perl6 features - especially as it would have helped kick-start my own > > understanding of Perl6 topics that

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-08-17 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:16:19PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > At 4:04 PM +0100 8/16/05, Tim Bunce wrote: > >I was a little dissapointed that there wasn't greater focus on using > >Perl6 features - especially as it would have helped kick-start my own > >understanding of Perl6 topics that I expect

Re: Parrot <-> Java integration

2005-08-17 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 04:39:06PM +0200, Nattfodd wrote: > Tim Bunce wrote: > > >Anyone given any thought to Parrot <-> Java integration? > > > >Possible? > >Practical? > >How much would would be involved? > > > >Tim. > > If I'm not mistaken, it's even one of the summer of code projects (see > h

Re: GC API from discussion

2005-08-17 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 00:59:52 +0100, Adrian Howard wrote: > Sorry - I don't understand. If I do: > > call_to_external_c_library_foo( $foo ); > call_to_external_c_library_bar( $bar ); > > Then how does the compiler know that $foo is only used temporarily and can > be moved around, w

Re: GC API from discussion

2005-08-17 Thread David Formosa \(aka ? the Platypus\)
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:46:29 +0300, Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:32:50 -, David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus) = > wrote: >> > This is getting me thinking though: >> >=20 >> >$*RUNTIME.Memory.GarbageCollector.dispose($object); # force it, >> >

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-08-17 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:12:02PM -0700, Dean Arnold wrote: > Tim Bunce wrote: > > >And nobody mentioned JDBC as a potential model. Odd that. > > I was sorely tempted to do so (and did mention it a few times in > my posts, along w/ ODBC and ADO.NET), but there are some things about > JDBC which

Re: GC API from discussion

2005-08-17 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 05:06:55 -, David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus) wrote: > This should be changed, timelyness will not prevent deadlock. However > it will prevent resource starvation aka livelock. What I meant is deadlock due to resource starvation: my $semaphore = Sempahore.n

Re: Modules::Starter question

2005-08-17 Thread Adam Kennedy
Robert wrote: I am creating my first module (finally) and I was told a while ago to use Module::Starter. Which I did. I am fine there. When I look at the code generated I see that all the POD stuff is inline while I prefer to see POD stuff at the end. Is the inline POD the current preferred way?

Re: my $pi is constant = 3;

2005-08-17 Thread Adam Kennedy
: If not a special form, should this work? : : my $pi is constant; : $pi = 3; That could be made to work by defining constant to mean you can assign to it if it's undefined. But then it gets a little harder to reason about it if $pi can later become undefined. I suppose we could dis

Re: Ambiguity of parsing numbers with underscores/methods

2005-08-17 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 16:59:12 -0400, Mark Reed wrote: > On 2005-08-16 16:45, "Nicholas Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd find it hard defending a language that treated 1.e5 as a method call. > > Guess we shouldn't sign you up for the Ruby Defense League, then? > > irb(main):001:0> 1.e

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-08-17 Thread John Siracusa
On 8/17/05 5:39 AM, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:58:54PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: >> I think it'll take years, and much actual production experience building >> Perl 6 modules before the community learns what works and what doesn't for a >> Perl 6 API (let alone implementation).

Re: my $pi is constant = 3;

2005-08-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:56:35PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: : : >: If not a special form, should this work? : >: : >: my $pi is constant; : >: $pi = 3; : > : >That could be made to work by defining constant to mean you can assign : >to it if it's undefined. But then it gets a little h

Re: my $pi is constant = 3;

2005-08-17 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:47:18AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > : >That could be made to work by defining constant to mean you can assign > : >to it if it's undefined. But then it gets a little harder to reason > : >about it if $pi can later become undefined. I suppose we could > : >disallow undefi

Re: t/dynclass/gdbmhash.t failures

2005-08-17 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Tim Bunce wrote: > Configure.pl said > > Determining if your platform supports gdbm.yes. > > But t/dynclass/gdbmhash.t fails completely: > > Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed > ---

Re: Parrot <-> Java integration

2005-08-17 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:07:22PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > Anyone given any thought to Parrot <-> Java integration? I have been looking at IKVM: http://www.ikvm.net/ It's basically a full Java environment but using CLR instead of JVM as the underlying runtime. The JIT conversion from Java

Re: t/dynclass/gdbmhash.t failures

2005-08-17 Thread jerry gay
> --- parrot-current/src/library.cTue Aug 16 13:22:34 2005 > +++ parrot-andy/src/library.c Tue Aug 16 15:46:49 2005 > @@ -212,9 +212,11 @@ > * if the extension is given use it > * TODO if not try extensions according to type > */ > +/* > if (!ext) { > i

ANN: Test.Simple 0.20

2005-08-17 Thread David Wheeler
Fellow Testers, I give you Test.Simple 0.20. This latest version of my port of Test::Simple and Test::Harness to JavaScript now supports pure .js test scripts in the browser harness. Details and change log here: http://www.justatheory.com/computers/programming/javascript/ test_simple-0.2

scopes of $?SELF and $?CLASS

2005-08-17 Thread Stevan Little
Hello all, I tried to search for this answer in AES12, but I did not see anything, and a perl6.lang search just brought up the whole $_.method vs. ./method debate (which was too much to shlog through). So, onto my question, I am wondering what are the valid scopes for $?SELF and $?CLASS. A

Re: scopes of $?SELF and $?CLASS

2005-08-17 Thread Ingo Blechschmidt
Hi, Stevan Little wrote: > So, onto my question, I am wondering what are the valid scopes for > $?SELF and $?CLASS. > > Are these (magical) globals who only have bound values in certain > contexts? If that is so, what value do they have outside of a valid > context? undef? or is attempting to acc

Re: Ambiguity of parsing numbers with underscores/methods

2005-08-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:25:40PM -0400, Roger Hale wrote: : 1.e5# all of these... : 1._e5 # : 1._0e5 # : 1.e_0_5_# == 1 * 10^5? The last three are illegal because underline is allowed only between digits. : The longest-possible-token metarule, common among

Re: Ambiguity of parsing numbers with underscores/methods

2005-08-17 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:37:26AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:25:40PM -0400, Roger Hale wrote: > : 1.e5# all of these... > : 1._e5 # > : 1._0e5 # > : 1.e_0_5_# == 1 * 10^5? > > The last three are illegal because underline is allowed

Re: scopes of $?SELF and $?CLASS

2005-08-17 Thread Stevan Little
On Aug 17, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote: Hi, Stevan Little wrote: So, onto my question, I am wondering what are the valid scopes for $?SELF and $?CLASS. Are these (magical) globals who only have bound values in certain contexts? If that is so, what value do they have outside of a

Re: scopes of $?SELF and $?CLASS

2005-08-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:15:56PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote: : So, onto my question, I am wondering what are the valid scopes for : $?SELF and $?CLASS. : : Are these (magical) globals who only have bound values in certain : contexts? If that is so, what value do they have outside of a valid :

What will happen if the attribute's names are the same but declared with different keyword?

2005-08-17 Thread Yiyi Hu
class T { has $.a =1; my $.a=2; }; my T $o .= new; $o.a().say; What the result will be please? 1 or 2? Or an error? Thanks, Xinming

Re: What will happen if the attribute's names are the same but declared with different keyword?

2005-08-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:33:35AM +0800, Yiyi Hu wrote: : class T : { : has $.a =1; : my $.a=2; : }; : my T $o .= new; : $o.a().say; : : What the result will be please? : 1 or 2? : Or an error? Definitely a compile-time error. You can't declare the same lexical name even if the declarator is di

Re: scopes of $?SELF and $?CLASS

2005-08-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:42:57PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote: : I think in a Role, $?SELF would still be the invocant in a method, and : $?CLASS would (eventually) bind to the class the role was composed : into. Yes, such things stay generic as long as they need to, and no longer. : As for sub

Re: Ambiguity of parsing numbers with underscores/methods

2005-08-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:40:12AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: : On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:37:26AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:25:40PM -0400, Roger Hale wrote: : > : 1.e5# all of these... : > : 1._e5 # : > : 1._0e5 # : > : 1.e_0_5_

Hoping that Params::Validate is not needed in Perl6

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Rolsky
One of the things I'm looking forward to in Perl6 is greatly improved sub/method signatures. I'm hoping that this will eliminate the need for anything like Params::Validate, which IMO is a nasty hack to make up for a serious weakness in Perl5. I'm going to go over the various features in P::

Re: my $pi is constant = 3;

2005-08-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:02:53AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: : On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:47:18AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : > : >That could be made to work by defining constant to mean you can assign : > : >to it if it's undefined. But then it gets a little harder to reason : > : >about it if $

Re: my $pi is constant = 3;

2005-08-17 Thread Luke Palmer
On 8/17/05, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could still reason about it if you can determine what the initial > value is going to be. But certainly that's not a guarantee, which > is one of the reasons we're now calling this write/bind-once behavior > "readonly" and moving true constan

Re: Hoping that Params::Validate is not needed in Perl6

2005-08-17 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DR" == Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DR> Mandatory vs. Optional Parameters DR> This is a pretty straightforward one in P6, I think. Parameters can DR> be marked as required with "is required" like this: DR> sub date ($year, ?$month, ?$day) # positional DR> sub da

Re: Hoping that Params::Validate is not needed in Perl6

2005-08-17 Thread Luke Palmer
On 8/17/05, Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to go over the various features in P::V and see if there are > equivalents in Perl6, and bring up any questions I have. I think this > will be interesting for folks still new to P6 (like myself) and existing > P::V users (I think there

Rebinding binding

2005-08-17 Thread Luke Palmer
Two years ago or so, I became very happy to learn that the left side of binding works just like a routine signature. So what if binding *were* just a routine signature. That is, could we make this: sub foo () { say "hello"; my $x := bar(); say "goodbye $x"; } Equ

Re: scopes of $?SELF and $?CLASS

2005-08-17 Thread Stevan Little
Larry, On Aug 17, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Larry Wall wrote: : As for submethods, I see them like this: : : submethod foo () { ... } : : is really .. : : submethod foo () { : next METHOD unless $?SELF ~~ $?CLASS; : } : : At least that is how larry explained to me about a month ago. Can't use ~~

Re: Test::Code

2005-08-17 Thread Ovid
--- demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One idea might be to try using Data::Dump::Streamer for your tests. > It > will serialize the lexical context that the subroutine was compiled > with (including bound anonymous subroutines and their lexical > context). > > A small hack (that i would be ha

Re: Hoping that Params::Validate is not needed in Perl6

2005-08-17 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 22:06:07 +, Luke Palmer wrote: > > > >{ credit_card_number => > > { optional => 1, > >depends => [ 'credit_card_expiration', 'credit_card_holder_name' ] }, > > > > credit_card_expiration => { optional => 1 }, > > > > credit_card_holder_name

Serializing code

2005-08-17 Thread Yuval Kogman
In the last year AJAX has become a significant technology. Now with perl 6 compiling to javascript and perl 5 and what not, i think there is a big future when you merge the two and remove the details. The way HTML::Prototype works is: you get an OO interface, which is clean and simple

Re: scopes of $?SELF and $?CLASS

2005-08-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:26:02PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote: : I am not sure if changing classes makes sense here so much as just : providing a means for submethod calls to be forced. Currently the : metamodels do this by allowing a special parameter in the first : argument which is a flag to

Re: my $pi is constant = 3;

2005-08-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:37:08PM +, Luke Palmer wrote: : On 8/17/05, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > You could still reason about it if you can determine what the initial : > value is going to be. But certainly that's not a guarantee, which : > is one of the reasons we're now calli

Re: Hoping that Params::Validate is not needed in Perl6

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Luke Palmer wrote: Dependencies, Exclusions, and "Require one-of" With P::V I can do this: { credit_card_number => { optional => 1, depends => [ 'credit_card_expiration', 'credit_card_holder_name' ] }, credit_card_expiration => { optional => 1 },

Re: Hoping that Params::Validate is not needed in Perl6

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Yuval Kogman wrote: You sortof can: sub validate (+$credit_card_number, +$credit_card_expiration, +$credit_card_holder_name) where { defined $credit_card_number xor defined $credit_card_expiration &&

Re: Hoping that Params::Validate is not needed in Perl6

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Dave Rolsky wrote: Type Validation, "isa", & "can" Params::Validate allows for several ways to check the _value_ of a parameter. One way is to specify a primitive type like "SCALAR" or "ARRAYREF". In P6 we have that with this: sub date (Scalar +$year is required, ...)

Re: Hoping that Params::Validate is not needed in Perl6

2005-08-17 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:45:52PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > And another question. How will I make Perl6 not do automatic coercion for > me. If I have this sub: > > sub date (Int +$year is required, +$month, +$day) BTW, Pugs supports the ++ syntax, which iirc is said to be back in favour du

Re: Time::Local

2005-08-17 Thread Sam Vilain
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 01:28 -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > > Why on earth would you want to encourage such a short sighted > > programming practise? The earth wobbles like a spinning top. In fact > It's hardly short sighted to want leap seconds to be abandoned (not in > Perl but world wide). The f

Re: Hoping that Params::Validate is not needed in Perl6

2005-08-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:04:56PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: : On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:45:52PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: : > And another question. How will I make Perl6 not do automatic coercion for : > me. If I have this sub: : > : > sub date (Int +$year is required, +$month, +$day) : :

Re: Hoping that Params::Validate is not needed in Perl6

2005-08-17 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 23:43:43 -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > But I'd really like to get this stuff done at compile time wherever possible. > > If I write this: > >validate( credit_card_number: $number ); > > it should blow up at compile time, right? So should MMD: The type signatures are